"They just retreated? I thought these heroes would chase after me, but I didn't expect that they would stop pestering or something. ”

Asakami Fujino looked at the Ku Chulainn who was leaving quickly, the two were a little puzzled, she originally thought that there would be a big battle today, but she didn't expect to leave quickly after just a few tests of the other party, and it seemed that she had no intention of continuing the fight at all.

"It's normal, because they are heroes who have left a name in history, so they don't act impulsively. The movement just now was already very large, and if someone noticed, it would probably cause a lot of trouble, so they won't do it easily until they are sure that they will kill with one hit. ”

Paracelsus' voice came from the side, and Fujino Asagami disconnected from the puppet to see that he had returned to the basement at some point.

Paracelsus looked at her and continued to smile gently: "This battle is not bad, although it is only a trial, but we have already seen the feasibility of our tactics. I'm sorry, but I'm supposed to be fighting it, but I can only ask you because of your rank. ”

"You don't have to apologize, I should say that I am grateful for your help in this Holy Grail War." Asakami Fujino immediately bowed in return.

Paracelsus pursed his lips and smiled, but there was a hint of worry in his eyes.

"You...... Are you worried about something? Asakami Fujino saw the other party's hidden worries.

"I'm sorry, it's mainly because I suddenly thought that the stronghold that had been hidden was actually discovered by someone, although I am indeed good at building positions, but no matter how powerful an immovable position is, it will still be a little difficult to face those famous heroes in history, and in general, it is not a good thing to be known the location of the stronghold."

Asakami Fujino frowned and nodded in agreement, after all, even the famous Troy City would be breached, although this hut had been strengthened to the temple level by Paracelsus, but this did not mean that it was foolproof.

Asakami Fujino has not forgotten that there is not only one Caster in this Holy Grail War, and if the other Caster who is summoned is also the type who is good at building positions, then it is possible to crack the magic workshop from the periphery little by little.

What's more, if there are some ridiculously strong guys among the servants, it is not impossible to break in directly.

“…… So what to do, to give up here? ”

Paracelsus shook his head when he heard this: "It is not an easy task to build a temple-level magic workshop, if you leave now, even if you already have a material base, it will take a lot of time and energy to rebuild a temple-level magic workshop. In addition, in the process, it will be troublesome if someone finds a trace, so it is better to continue to strengthen the existing workshop. ”

Seeing Asakami Fujino's worried look, Paracelsus smiled and comforted him.

"Don't worry, the situation hasn't reached such a critical moment, at least the two servants I met today are not capable of breaking into this magic workshop. And even if they find out about our stronghold, they won't attack for a short time, after all, they have to take into account the existence of the other side, so at least there will be no problem until the battle becomes fierce. ”

Asakami Fujino didn't think of a better solution either, so he could only nod his head in agreement.

……

……

A week before the start of the Holy Grail War, underground in the mountains on the east side of Fuyuki City.

Known as Okutama, the mountains here are so remote that they can even be considered beyond the confines of Fuyuki City.

Because of the low level of development, there are a large number of trees on the mountain, and it is usually considered inaccessible, and there are not many residents.

And beneath the mountains of Okutama, there is a large magic workshop guarded by many barriers.

The size of this magic workshop is so large that it almost hollows out the entire mountain range, and the interior is like a labyrinth.

After all, this is a guardian fortress built by a multi-digit number of magicians, and even a powerful existence invasion at the level of a servant will take a lot of time to succeed, and even if you want to use magic to break the barrier layer by layer, the magic trap will obliterate the stupid magician before that.

In terms of physical protection, in addition to the outer mountain and the extremely thick special reinforced concrete structure inside, there are also infrared detection insides to detect all enemies who quietly bypass the magic barrier, and countless machine guns are also installed on the ceiling and walls of the workshop, ready to crush all intruders at any time.

Even the interior is equipped with a separate air circulation machine to prevent the enemy from attacking using air toxins or similar means.

Although it is not very clever compared to the temple-level magic workshops built by those Servants of the Limit with extremely mysterious skills, the space inside the fortress will not turn into another world, and it has not even been able to set up traps that are difficult for people to survive such as the high heat of the earth's core or the vacuum of the universe, which is difficult to destroy when encountering the invasion of Servant-level enemies.

But it is not inferior in simply blocking the invasion of outsiders, whether the other party is a human army, a magician group or a servant.

It is a fortress built with magic, guns and electronic instruments, and it can be called impregnable.

At the same time, this is also the embodiment of the "clan" in charge of this fortress, and the strategy of the Holy Grail War.

And the reason why they set all this is to protect the head of the clan who participated in the Holy Grail War.

In the darkened chamber in the deepest part of the magic workshop, there is an ornate chair that resembles the throne of an ancient king, where the masked old man who tried to claim the Holy Grail, the patriarch of the three clans of Ise, sits.

"Grab the Holy Grail."

In the darkness, the old man's voice sounded through the mask, which contained deeply pent-up emotions.

It's not clear whether these emotions are irritated or indignant, and may be a sign of self-esteem.

Although the Ise Trinity clan has achieved a certain degree of symbiosis in modern and modern society, and has achieved great growth and prosperity, its reputation in the world of magicians is far inferior to that of other families.

Especially after the Holy Grail War was revealed, the prestige of the Tosaka family, which was originally thought to have declined, reached a certain peak again.

For magicians, the decline of a family depends entirely on the results of the family, and the most intuitive manifestation is the magic engraving that has been passed down from generation to generation, but in addition, if you can complete some kind of magic or ritual beyond imagination, it is also a commendable achievement.

There is no doubt that the essence of the Holy Grail War is not clear, but what is revealed on the surface is enough to bring great prestige to the three families.

Now the magic world knows that it is the power of these three families that has created the Holy Grail that can grant wishes.

Therefore, the Tosaka family behaved quite aggrieved in front of the clock tower, and even felt like they were forced to give up their family's achievements.

But in fact, being coveted by a behemoth like the clock tower is a manifestation of strength in itself, after all, more than ninety percent of the magician families in the world are not even qualified to be coveted by the clock tower.

Moreover, the clock tower had already given enough subsidies to the three families before "snatching" the Holy Grail, after all, according to the information they knew, the greatest function of the Holy Grail was the huge source of magic that had accumulated for sixty years and could be easily used by anyone, in addition to making wishes.

Although this kind of technology is indeed amazing, if it is only to obtain the accumulated magic power and not technology, the subsidy they give is enough to make up for the loss of the three families.

It can even be said that in order to win over the three families, the clock tower actually gave a price that exceeded the "market price".

It's just that for the three royal families who know the essence of the Holy Grail, they naturally don't think that they are taking advantage of it.

But in any case, because of this commotion, the Tosaka family's prestige in the magic world reached its highest in a short period of time, easily surpassing the three Ise families, which had already begun to decline.

This made it unacceptable to the Ise Trinity, who have always considered themselves to be the magic world in the Far East with the longest history and the self-proclaimed No. 1 magic family in the Far East.

What's more, when Ise Sangentachi went to the Clock Tower to try to apply for a place in this Holy Grail War to prove his family's glory, he was rejected by the Clock Tower and insulted that they were a backward family, and the only one who identified with it was the Tosaka family.

This made Ise Sangenli so angry that he almost burped on the spot, and he couldn't swallow this breath after he came back, so he took advantage of this chaos to lead the whole clan to participate in this Holy Grail War.

"If the almighty wishing machine of the Holy Grail falls into the hands of the Tosaka family, my name of Ise III will really be disgraced, how can this be reasonable, I will never allow this kind of thing to happen!" The sound that resounded through the room shook the mask on his face.

This expressionless mask symbolizes the current Ise Trinity.

In order to fill the magic circuit that has been decayed by the overlapping bloodlines, Ise Sangenri created this dress.

This noodle has the ability to capture the magic of others and transform it into the wearer, and it is a unique technique created by the Ise Trinity clan by extracting a part of Western magic that came to Japan hundreds of years ago and fusing it with "modern science".

The Ise Trinity clan uses the general hospitals run by their own people all over Tokyo to collect the life force of the inpatients, and even at the moment when they have just succeeded in summoning extremely powerful servants, they are constantly replenishing the magic they need in the present world.

Magic is transformed by life force, if you take it endlessly against a person, then it will inevitably cause death, but the current Xuanli old man can't manage so much.

No matter how many innocent people are killed, they don't mind, after all, as a person in the magic world, the moral bottom line is so low that ordinary people can't understand it.

At this moment, he doesn't care how many people are suffering from the erosion of their lives, and what really makes Ise Sangenri regret is actually that as a person in the magic world, he vainly used the same forbidden scientific power.

For magicians in the orthodox magic world, words like science are disgusting just to mention, but they have to use such taboos to continue the lifeblood of their clansmen.

But because of this, they must now also fight to win this Holy Grail War.

"We must snatch the Holy Grail hidden in Fuyuki City, and when the time comes, the sins of our clan who have lost the grace of the ancient 'Ise no Mi (snake)', who have come into contact with Western magic, and even become greedy enough to get involved in 'science' will be able to wash away the sins."

Even with the help of technology, the bloodline of the Trinity of Ise has reached its limit, and the only thing that can be pinned on now is the power of the Holy Grail to fulfill all wishes.

Only by obtaining the Holy Grail can the Ise clan regain its position at the head of the Far East, and it is the only chance to wash away the title of "magician who preys on science".

Recalling all that his family had endured, the old man in the mask continued:

"Therefore, I hereby order, the servants who have been summoned here by my rite, and you must take the Holy Grail no matter what!"

Every word in the words contained the remorse and grief of the entire clan, and the spiritual will contained in it was enough to make ordinary people kneel on the ground after hearing it.

However......

"It's so stingy, it's really boring."

The servant who was summoned by him dropped such a sentence, which was obviously just a reproach, but it was like a solemn and absolute declaration from the gods of the sky, and it was like a ruthless spitting from the underworld.

The person who made this voice was standing on the other side of the line of sight of the old man Xuanli, a man dressed in a dazzling kingly domineering, wearing a white robe, revealing a large area of brown skin, and the pupils of the same color as the sun seemed to be burning in it, as if the shining sun in the sky was embedded in his eyes.

The look in his gaze may have been a little wrong if it was contempt, for in the eyes of this brown-skinned, white-clad man adorned with gold, no one could be next to him, all of them were just a bunch of people.

The momentum that overcame all things, even in the face of the masked old man sitting on a throne-like seat, did not change in the slightest.

"It's stupid, and ...... It's ridiculous. As he scolded, the man paused.

The Rider, who had just been summoned to the world, fell into a moment of thought, and with his wisdom, he naturally knew that no matter how the times changed, there were always some things that remained the same, and even if thousands of years had passed, the people all over the land probably had not changed at all.

And among those tens of millions of people, there are inevitably some stupid fools.

During his lifetime, there was a glorious existence for him, and he did not meet any of the existences worth seeing.

Whether it is a common man or a general, or even a small king who is not in the position of pharaoh but dares to rule over mankind, there is not much difference in the brilliance of the soul.

That's why......

The mundane actions of man did not provoke the wrath of his pharaoh, after all, he had seen enough in his previous life.

(PS: I was going to continue to add more today, but I was suddenly pulled to work, so I only have this guarantee today.) ）

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